Friday Still Shines

The storefronts all shut down for good and let the paint go gray
The plant went quiet years ago and took the paychecks too
The young ones took the interstate and slowly moved away
But every Friday night this town's got something left to prove

Main Street's gone dark but the field's still bright
And the whole town's here on a Friday night
Let 'em write us off, let the map forget our name
Under these lights we're still the same
The Friday night lights still shine
On a town that time left behind
Holler till the whole world hears
We're still here, we're still here

The old men line the chain-link fence the way they always have
The coach still runs the same defense his daddy ran back then
Number twelve is third in line to wear it on his back
And the band still plays that fight song flat and proud again

Main Street's gone dark but the field's still bright
And the whole town's here on a Friday night
Let 'em write us off, let the map forget our name
Under these lights we're still the same
The Friday night lights still shine
On a town that time left behind
Holler till the whole world hears
We're still here, we're still here

For a couple hours no one's counting all that's gone
The rent, the layoffs, the goodbyes just fade beneath the roar
There's a kid who's getting out someday, a man who'll hold the line
And tonight they're on their feet as one the way they were before

They can shutter every window, let the whole main street fall down
Let the weeds grow up through every crack
But they'll never take the roar that rolls across this town
On a Friday when the lights come back

Main Street's gone dark but the field's still bright
And the whole town's here on a Friday night
Let 'em write us off, let the map forget our name
Under these lights we're still the same
The Friday night lights still shine
On a town that time left behind
Holler till the whole world hears
We're still here, we're still here